Boot Camps

A boot camp is an in-person, example-driven workshop, typically two or three days long. A boot camp covers the core skills needed to be productive in a small research team: basic programming skills, version control, testing, using the shell, and relational databases.

Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have learned to their own research problems during and between sessions. Participants usually work on their own computers (typically laptops), using either native software or a standard set of packages running in a virtual machine. This ensures that they have a working environment when the boot camp is done.

Want to know more? See our FAQ.
Want to run one? See our how-to guide.
Want us to teach one where you are? Please email us.

All boot camp participants are expected to abide by our code of conduct to ensure that all attendees to have an enjoyable and fulfilling experience.

Future Boot Camps

Women in Science and Engineering (Boston)	open	Jun 24-25, 2013
University of Oklahoma	restricted	Jul 01-02, 2013
University of Oslo	open	Jul 03-04, 2013
Indiana University		Jul 11-12, 2013
University of Bath	open	Jul 15-16, 2013
Virginia Tech	restricted	Jul 15-16, 2013
CUAHSI Water Data Center/Utah State University	open	Jul 16-17, 2013
University of Notre Dame	open	Jul 18-19, 2013
University of Washington		Jul 18-19, 2013
Carnegie Mellon University	restricted	Jul 27-28, 2013
University of Kansas	restricted	Aug 22-23, 2013
US Army Engineer Research and Development Center	restricted	Aug 27-29, 2013
University of Iowa		Sep 05-06, 2013
Caltech		Sep 09 - Oct 10, 2013
University of Bristol	open	Sep 12-13, 2013
Information Sciences Institute		Sep 16-17, 2013
Stroud Water Research Center	restricted	Sep 30 - Oct 01, 2013
University of Exeter	restricted	Nov 12-13, 2013
NOAA / WHOI		Nov 14-15, 2013

See also our list of who's teaching where.

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Past Boot Camps

University of Chicago	Jun 17-18, 2013
Salk Institute	Jun 10-11, 2013
Simon Fraser University	Jun 06-07, 2013
Data Science for Social Good, U. of Chicago	Jun 04-05, 2013
University of Southampton	Jun 03-04, 2013
Tufts University	Jun 03-04, 2013
University of Alberta	May 30-31, 2013
University of Massachusetts Amherst	May 23-24, 2013
NCAR	May 23-24, 2013
Duke University	May 20-21, 2013
Jagiellonian University	May 18-19, 2013
NESCent	May 16-17, 2013
University of California Davis	May 13-14, 2013
University of Oxford	May 09-10, 2013
Mozilla Foundation (Toronto)	May 09-10, 2013
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	May 09-10, 2013
Stanford University	May 06-07, 2013
Howard Hughes Medical Institute	May 06-07, 2013
GEOMAR (Kiel)	May 06-07, 2013
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam	May 02-03, 2013
University of Wisconsin - Madison	Apr 29-30, 2013
University of Maryland, Baltimore	Apr 27-28, 2013
Telecom ParisTech	Apr 20-21, 2013
University of Manchester	Apr 18-19, 2013
University of California Berkeley	Apr 13-14, 2013
EGI Forum, Manchester	Apr 11, 2013
Stellenbosch University	Apr 08-09, 2013
University of Arizona	Apr 04-05, 2013
University College London	Apr 04-08, 2013
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology	Mar 24-25, 2013
Utah State University	Mar 23-24, 2013
American University of Beirut	Mar 20-21, 2013
University of Virginia	Mar 07-08, 2013
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Mar 04-07, 2013
University of Washington	Feb 25-26, 2013
AMOS Conference (Melbourne)	Feb 14-15, 2013
Macquarie University	Feb 07-08, 2013
University of British Columbia	Feb 05-06, 2013
Virginia Tech	Jan 31 - Feb 01, 2013
Columbia University	Jan 30 - Feb 02, 2013
Max Planck Institute Tuebingen	Jan 25-26, 2013
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health	Jan 24-25, 2013
Technische Universitat Munchen	Jan 22-23, 2013
University of British Columbia	Jan 21-22, 2013
University of Waterloo	Jan 12-13, 2013
University of Chicago	Jan 12-13, 2013
McGill University	Jan 12-13, 2013
University of British Columbia	Jan 11, 2013
University of Texas (Austin)	Dec 10-11, 2012
University of Edinburgh	Dec 04-05, 2012
University of Hawaii	Nov 30 - Dec 01, 2012
University of North Carolina	Nov 28-29, 2012
Scripps Research Institute	Nov 15-16, 2012
Washington University in St. Louis	Nov 10-11, 2012
McMaster University	Nov 08-09, 2012
Oxford University	Oct 30-31, 2012
George Mason University	Oct 25-26, 2012
Caltech	Oct 23-24, 2012
University of Newcastle	Oct 22-23, 2012
University of California Berkeley	Oct 20-21, 2012
University of British Columbia	Oct 18-19, 2012
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Oct 17-18, 2012
Purdue University	Oct 08-09, 2012
Columbia University	Sep 28-29, 2012
University of Oslo	Sep 17-18, 2012
DAFx Conference (University of York)	Sep 13-14, 2012
University of Toronto (Scarborough)	Jul 19-20, 2012
Halifax	Jul 16-17, 2012
University of Waterloo	Jul 12-13, 2012
MIT	Jul 09-10, 2012
INRIA Paris	Jun 28-29, 2012
Johns Hopkins University	Jun 18-19, 2012
University of British Columbia	May 22-23, 2012
University of Alberta	May 16-17, 2012
Newcastle University	May 14-15, 2012
Michigan State University	May 07-08, 2012
University College London	Apr 30 - May 01, 2012
Utah State University	Apr 14-15, 2012
University of Chicago	Apr 02-03, 2012
NERSC	Mar 28-29, 2012
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute	Mar 26-27, 2012
Indiana University	Mar 07-08, 2012
University of Toronto	Feb 23-24, 2012
International Centre for Theoretical Physics	Feb 20 - Mar 02, 2012
Space Telescope Science Institute	Jan 18-19, 2012
University of Toronto	Nov 07-08, 2011